Chapter three: The hunt begins
"Alright so it's somewhere up there," Bulma said looking up from the radar. "Way up there."
"That doesn't narrow it down much!" Vegeta angry voice came from the radio in Bulma's ear. "All I see are trees and animals, god even your animals on this planet are weak!" A faint explosion sound was heard but Bulma dismissed it thinking it was static.
"Vegeta you're starting to break up, how high are you?"
"Well I can still see that ugly form of yours so I'm not that high," Vegeta answered. "Then again your large enough to see from far distances."
"How dare you? Don't you know who I am?" Bulma screamed into the radio. "I get thousands of love letters from men a day! There isn't a guy on this planet that wouldn't want the rare chance to touch Bulma Breifs' body!"
"Hmph from what I've seen the puny earthling men on this planet aren't anything special," Vegeta said.
"Well then playboy, how many women have YOU had hmmm?" Bulma asked.
"That doesn't matter," Vegeta said. "What matters is that your radar is broken seeing as I can't locate the blasted dragonball!"
"Quick to change the subject are we?"
"Shut up!"
"Hey Vegeta I'm hungry, can we get some food?" Kakarot's voice suddenly came from the radio.
"We ate an hour ago, you've gone longer without sustenance," Vegeta said. "And it's Prince Vegeta."
"But I'm starving!" Kakarot whined.
"We'll eat when we find the dragonball!" Vegeta growled.
"But Vegetaaaaa..."
"It's Prince Vegeta!"
"Will ya give the kid a break? Jeez you treat him like a slave." Bulma said.
"He might as well be," Vegeta told her. "Just as you are girl."
"I am no slave, I'm just your temporary partner."
"Partner? And since when did we agree to that?"
"Since we started using MY dragon radar."
"Which by the way is broken! Besides without me it would take you days to reach the top of this mountain."
"Better than listening to you," Bulma said. "Oh I'm Vegeta, Prince of all Sins blah blah blah."
"I do NOT sound like that, and it's Prince of Sayains you imbecile!"
"Who are you calling an imbecile you jerk? I don't have to take that from some arrogant alien!"
"I am no idiot, I am Prince Vegeta! I can kill insects like you without lifting a finger."
Bulma was ready to retort but ChiChi suddenly said "Hey guys, I've got a question, the ball we're looking for has 3 stars right?"
"Yeah why?" Bulma asked.
"Well I think I see it," ChiChi said. "I can't tell 'cause it's in a glass box."
"Where are you?"
"At the top of the mountain, there's a small town up here." ChiChi said.
"Kakarot can you fly me up there?" Bulma asked.
"Kakarot? Where that boy go?"
"Insubordination, I'll punish him for that later." Vegeta growled.
"Vegeta, fly me up there so we can get that dragonball." Bulma groaned.
"Hmph, why should I?"
"Because I said so."
"I don't do anything just because someone says so, girl." Vegeta told her. "Especially not for some weak earthling."
"Vegeta come on, just come get me!" Vegeta rolled his eyes.
"Fine," he said flying down to the very bottom.
Quickly he scooped Bulma bridal style and took off in the air, in a matter of seconds they were at the top of the mountain and heading toward the small town. "There's ChiChi," Bulma said. "Land right here."
"Don't give me orders." Vegeta scoffed.
"Just do it," Bulma groaned.
Vegeta flew down to where ChiChi was and dropped Bulma abruptly. "Ow! You could've gently put me down!" Bulma said.
"True, but it wouldn't have been humorus." Vegeta said with a smirk.
Bulma gave him a quick glare before brushing the dust off her and heading into the small shack. "There it is," ChiChi said pointing. "That's it right?"
"No doubt," Bulma answered, she looked around the shop and saw a man sitting on a stool carving something. "Excuse me sir, how much for the orange ball?"
"That old thing it's just..." the man froze when he looked up and saw Bulma's face, what intrigued him was not her beauty but the logo on her jacket. Capsule Corp.? The most profitable business on the planet? The man thought. Then this must be Bulma Briefs, heiress to the Capsule Corp. business. She's rich!
"Well this here is a priceless artifact," the man said holding the dragonball to her. "Normally it wouldn't be for sale, but since you're such a pretty girl I'll sell it for...10 million zeni."
"Ten million?" Bulma exclaimed. "What a rip off!"
"Hey it's a priceless artifact, museum owners have come to me countless times trying to buy it off me. Take it or leave it."
"I only have 10,000 zeni on me." Bulma groaned looking at her credit card. "Mabey I can call Dad and have him wire me some-"
"No need," Vegeta said with a grin. "Put away your riches girl, I'll handle it."
"You're gonna buy it?" Bulma asked incredulously. "Aww that's so-"
"Oh I'll buy it alright," Vegeta interrupted grinning. "Girl and...other girl go wait outside." ChiChi and Bulma gave each other confused looks before leaving the prince. "Now," Vegeta said taking a step closer to the man. "How much does the dragonball cost?"
"Well I don't know what a dragonball is, but as I said before this artifact is-" the man immediately stopped talking as a small but fast beam of energy shot through his chest right where his heart would be.
"So it costs your life eh? That's a pretty good bargain." Vegeta said with an evil smirk. The man tried to choke out some words but found it impossible as he finally fell face first on the counter. "I'll just collect my purchase." Vegeta took the dragonball and left the dead man's shop. "Girl, other girl, we're leaving now."
"Hey, how'd you get it? You gots some alien money or somethin'?" ChiChi asked.
"No," Vegeta said with an evil laugh. "The owner said it was worth his life, so I made the payment. Heh heh heh." Both girl's face twisted in shocked as Vegeta walked ahead of them tossing his new acclaimed dragonball.
"Useless," Nappa growled smashing the controls. "Not one ship on this rugged planet can fly!"
"That's probably why they just chose to live here," Raditz said. "There doesn't appear to be any other life on this planet besides the ones Turles just eradicated."
"Hmm, mabey it was a mistake to kill them so quickly." Turles said tapping his chin.
Suddenly he felt something hard smack him on the head as Nappa growled "Oh you think?"
"Okay, so we've got no ship, no food, and no idea where the hell we are." Radtiz said. "Not to mention we still can't locate my brother or the prince."
"Didn't we already go through this?" Turles groaned. "They're dead. D-E-A-D, dead. The best we can do now is find a way back to Frieza's ship and hope our punishment isn't too severe."
"You may be right," Raditz sighed.
"Hey! I think I found something useful!" Nappa called as the two sayains ran to see what the older sayain was talking about. Once the other two got there they saw Nappa pointing to an odd looking device.
"What is it?" Turles asked.
"It looks like some kind of communication transmitter," Raditz said pushing a button. "Wait...do you hear that?"
At first nothing was heard but static, then faint fuzzy voices began to talk. "Where's Kakarot?" the first voice asked.
"I dunno, he was here earlier. And I heard you two talking to him." another voice said.
"That imbecile, he's probably slacking off somewhere. I'll kill him for disobeying his prince." the third, more familiar, voice growled.
"By God the oaf actually did something right, they're talking about Kakarot," Turles said. "And is it me or was that Prince Vegeta's voice?"
"It was!" Nappa said. "Wait a minute, oaf?"
"I can't tell where the transmission is coming from," Raditz said. "Damn it, I could really use my scouter right now."
Turles began looking around before spotting something. "Hey look, a survivor." he said. The other two sayains looked to see another one of the creatures Turles had just killed only this one was half dead. "Don't worry I'll take care of him."
"No!" Raditz swatted Turles hand away. "We can use him."
Raditz grabbed the being by his shirt and held him in the air. "P-Please don't kill me..." the alien pleaded.
"I'm not...yet." Raditz said. "Do you know how to configure this contraption?"
"Yes," the alien spoke.
"Good, see if you can figure out where the signal is coming from." Raditz said.
"O-Okay," the alien agreed as Raditz dropped him.
He quickly scrambled over to the device and began pressing buttons, eventually the device began to shape shift until it became a small round compass. "The location is locked," the being said. "If you attach this to your ship it will take you to your destination."
"Good," Raditz said snatching the compass. "Now all we need is a ship, and some food. You wouldn't happen to have any would you?"
"We have plenty of food, b-but the only ship that is close to working is the Takan. It's behind this building."
"Alright, Nappa and Turles you two go get some food." Raditz ordered.
"Hey, since when did you start giving orders?" Turles asked.
"Since the Prince and my brother went missing," Raditz told him. "If you don't like it we can fight, but remember Prince Vegeta and Kakarot are sayains and if we ever plan to overthrow Frieza someday then we need all of us. Even Kakarot."
"Hmph, fine. But I'm not following orders, I'm listening to suggestions." Turles said walking off with Nappa.
"Good, now to deal with you." Raditz turned to the alien. "I'll let Turles decide once he gets back." Raditz left the building to search for the Takan, right after he left the building he heard a loud scream of pain before an explosion. "Turles," Raditz seemed a bit disgusted. "Now where is that ship? Ahh here it is...wait what is that?" Raditz saw something inside of the ship, he quickly opened its doors and pulled it out. "A child?" Raditz said. He then looked and noticed something brown and fuzzy. "A t-tail? Then he's a Sayain child?"
"Ow! Vegeta I said I was sorry...owww!" Kakarot cried as Vegeta punched the top of his head again.
"Do not leave unless instructed to do so!" Vegeta growled. "And that's Prince Vegeta!" He kicked Kakarot again into the wall before deciding it was enough. Meanwhile away from the boys ChiChi and Bulma were plotting their escape while taking a bath.
"Okay, so when we find the last ball we have to get out of there quick." Bulma said. "I was thinking we 'celebrate' by going to some all you can eat restaurant, those two will be so entranced by the food they'll forget we were even there."
"It sounds perfect, but I think you're forgetting the fact that they can fly." ChiChi said. "Besides, I'm not sure I wanna leave Kakarot."
Bulma rolled her eyes. "Oh don't tell me you're getting a crush on him?"
"No!" ChiChi said. "What are you talkin' about...Kakarot's just a friend you know how it is."
"Oh I know how it is alright," Bulma said with a grin.
"Bulmaaaa!" ChiChi whined her face getting red.
"Fine, I won't say anything." Bulma giggled. ChiChi sighed in releif as she sank lower into the water. "You know Kakarot isn't so bad really," Bulma said. "Not at all like Vegeta, he's just a stuck up, childish, annoying, short, little...dickhead!"
"Dickhead?"
"Yeah I said it, dickhead." Bulma pouted crossing her arms. "He thinks he can just go wherever he want and order anyone around like a slave, he won't even call me by my name. He just keeps referring to me as girl."
"He calls me other girl," ChiChi said. "And yeah he may be a...dickhead as you put it, but maybe there's a reason he's like that. People aren't born dicks, they're just born with them."
"Whatever, it's not like I care. I'm just worried about my wish." Bulma said getting out of the water. And no one will stand in my way.
A man with blue skin and an armor was quickly walking somewhere, he pushed and shoved people out of the way before reaching a certain door. He gulped and rose a shaking fist to knock on the door. "Come in," an ice cold terrifying voice said. The blue man walked into the room as the door closed behind him, quickly he got on one knee in a bowing position facing the ground. "Zarbon, to what do I owe this unexpected visit?" the voice asked.
"I bring rather alarming news, it seems the monkey's trackers have disappeared from our radars," Zarbon explained. "We've tried to contact them via scouter but we have been unable to do so in the past 76 hours, most believe them to be dead but-"
"But you see more to it than that," the cold voice said. "I see, I guess the day I anticipated is approaching much quicker than I suspected."
"What shall I do?" Zarbon asked completely unsure.
"At this point, there is no need to do anything." the voice told him. "We'll wait and see what trickery these sayains intend to use upon us."
"Yes sir," Zarbon said bowing once more before turning to leave.
"Zarbon."
"Yes?"
"When you locate them, send in Cui's squadron." Zarbon grinned evilly.
"Yes...Lord Frieza."
"I got dinner!" Kakarot said tossing down a dead dinosaur he caught earlier. "I hope he's as good as he was tough."
"Kakarot, I remember specifically asking for fish." Vegeta growled.
"But I wanted meat," Kakarot told him innocently. "Besides, I couldn't find any fish today. Well none that looked edible at least."
"Useless as always," Vegeta scoffed as he began blasting pieces off the dead animal. "Servant girl, I require something to drink! Bring it to me!"
"Oh you've got to be kidding me," Bulma groaned not looking away from her magazine. "Get it yourself! Or can you not reach them?"
"Grr, other servant!" Vegeta called.
When he didn't get an answer he clenched his fist in anger and growled to himself "What kind of planet is this? Do these females not know their place? I am royalty and I have yet to be treated as such." Vegeta stormed off toward the so called 'Capsule House' as the servant girl had called it.
"Such a whiner," Bulma sighed setting her magazine down and retrieving her radio. "I need some music." She turned the device on noticing that it was set to recording. "That's right," Bulma said. "I did set it to recording earlier so I could record things that the satellites in space pick up." She was about to change it when voices quickly stopped her.
"So Prince Vegeta's on Earth eh?" the first voice asked.
"I'm pretty sure, so far we're traveling the same path as the coordinates that were preset in our pods." another voice confirmed.
"Whatever, Vegeta's probably already killed everyone by now." a third voice said.
"Aww I hope not, then there won't be any fun for me!" the second voice whined. "I hope he at least saved their women, I haven't spent time with a women in years!"
"Nappa you've never touched a woman," the third voice laughed.
Bulma turned the radio off with her mouth wide open in shock, quickly her eyes darted to Vegeta who was standing not far from her drinking a whole bottle of orange juice.
"What girl?" Vegeta growled.
"N-Nothing...I'm just gonna go do...girl things over behind the tree." Bulma said. Vegeta's face twisted in disgust as Bulma took off.
"Girl things?" he asked himself. "You know what, I don't even want to know." Vegeta sat down finishing his orange juice not knowing the four pair of eyes watching him from behind trees.
A/N: Another chapter bites the dust! Review please.